The Diocesan Museum of Bisceglie

Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

History museums

The Museum was established in 1980 and then reopened to the public many years later. On 22nd December 2008 an agreement was signed between the Archdiocese of Barletta-Andria-Trani and the Municipality of Bisceglie which has helped to strengthen the "Museums system" of the Archdiocese allowing the use of the premises of the former Bishop’s Palace and of the old seminar as the home of the Diocesan Museum of Bisceglie. Thus, the Diocesan Museum occupies an area of over two thousand square meters inside the Bishop’s Palace that is located next to the Romanesque Cathedral. It spreads over three floors. On the ground floor there are laboratories for the diagnostics and restoration with the application of modern technologies, under the supervision of the Department of Physics of the University of Bari. On the first floor there are exhibition halls and classrooms. On the second floor of the museum there are 18 rooms divided into three sections: the first includes the apartment built for the Bishop Sarnelli and his successors and the second floor houses the collections of votive offerings from various churches and jewellery and women’s clothing dating from the nineteenth century. The third section is devoted to the "Treasures of the Cathedral"